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The Climate Change Neros Of Capitol Hill
June 30, 2021
![Can you guess the member of Congress who is Potter's target?](/content/articles/ic_1625025907_400x300_true.jpg)
For those elected officials who continue to deny the scientific facts about climate change, John Potter believes a reckoning is coming and history will judge them harshly
Read MoreWith Color, Flato Has A Magic Touch
June 29, 2021
![Paradise Valley Cloud by Malou Flato](/content/articles/ic_1624997258_400x300_true.jpg)
Artist Malou Flato, known nationally for her mixed media explorations of nature, shines in a new showing of oil paintings devoted to Paradise Valley, Montana
Read MoreCease Fire Now: Should Public Lands Be Places Where Politics Are Checked At The Trailhead?
June 25, 2021
![Our shared love of nature ought to unite us, right?](/content/articles/ic_1624627586_400x300_true.jpg)
Chris Hunt escaped to a river to fly fish. Back at camp, he met a citizen who was there at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Then, around a campfire, all hell nearly broke loose
Read MoreBeloved Beasts Is A Perfect Read For The West—And Our Time
June 24, 2021
![Nijhuis: We've rallied before—and we can again](/content/articles/ic_1624519794_400x300_true.jpg)
New important book by Michelle Nijhuis tracks evolution of American conservation and arrives at this conclusion: there is still hope but we have to act now
Read MoreBears Again Paying The Price When People Behave Badly
June 23, 2021
![How again is Felicia a "problem" bear?](/content/articles/ic_1624456412_400x300_true.jpg)
John Potter wonders aloud: what teaching moment is being squandered as wildlife managers heavy-handedly respond to grizzly bear mother "Felicia" and cubs on Wyoming's Togwotee Pass?
Read MoreWired Differently: Young Americans And Wildland Conservation
June 21, 2021
![Young people have their own definitions of wild nature](/content/articles/ic_1624328037_400x300_true.jpg)
Professor Don Snow, life-long student of the West, reflects on the generational divides in thinking about nature—what's an improvement and what might not be
Read MorePainting The Wild Sources Of Moving Water
June 16, 2021
![Dawn on the Henrys Fork by Dave Hall](/content/articles/ic_1581451811_400x300_true.jpg)
Dave Hall celebrates the lifeblood of Greater Yellowstone that reaches millions downstream
Read More'Four Fifths A Grizzly' Is Chadwick's Reminder That Wildness Resides In Our DNA
June 16, 2021
![People and bears share the same biological mosaic](/content/articles/ic_1623858010_400x300_true.jpg)
Brot Coburn reviews a new summer book by Douglas Chadwick that makes the case for thinking across big landscapes and understanding what's inside them
John Heminway: American Master Of Dramatic Earthly Storytelling
June 15, 2021
![Heminway on the trail of elephant poachers](/content/articles/ic_1623776477_400x300_true.jpg)
From writing for legendary Wyoming outdoorsman Curt Gowdy to exposing elephant ivory poachers on film, John Heminway fights for wildness by telling the truth
Read MorePaean For A Yellowstone Elder
June 10, 2021
![After a quarter century he is at permanent rest](/content/articles/ic_1623373763_400x300_true.jpg)
After an old grizzly has a final tussle with a rival just outside Yellowstone, George Bumann offers a few worlds in tribute
Read MoreTrout Barbs: Read Their Lips
June 9, 2021
![Who's having more fun—anglers or the fish they catch?](/content/articles/ic_1623222173_400x300_true.jpg)
Cartoonist John Potter considers the growing juggernaut of Western fly fishing from the perspective of anglers and their sentient freshwater quarry
Read MoreThe Mighty Yellowstone: A Magnificent And Beleaguered River?
June 8, 2021
![The untamed Yellowstone: a river that shapes local identity](/content/articles/ic_1623189826_400x300_true.jpg)
After the legendary river flooded 25 years ago, hard lessons were learned but are they being forgotten? Livingston resident Dennis Glick offers this perspective
Read More30 X 30: Biden's Bureaucratic Bogeyman Or A Real Plan To Curb Climate Change?
June 7, 2021
![Wildlife movement fits into national climate change strategy](/content/articles/ic_1623110396_400x300_true.jpg)
Protecting healthy wildlife ecosystems like Greater Yellowstone is a central thrust of strategy. MoJo's Tom Sadler and Todd Wilkinson provide an overview
Read MoreThe Unspeakable Past Of Indian Boarding Schools
June 7, 2021
![Students at the Kamloops School](/content/articles/ic_1623037784_400x300_true.jpg)
A grim discovery in western Canada is yet another shocking reminder of how Indian schools were instruments of genocide. Lois Red Elk offers two poems that speak to their legacy
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